I am no where to relying on my forum to make money. I have put much more
into my forum then I expect to even see within the next 5 years, and seeing there
are forums that are already rooted in my market, then it could be much
longer; however, I would appreciate some traffic, and for people to repsect
me, and not jump down my throat because I will not dance to their tune....

I knew for a fact when I setup the forum, it would not be for money; however,
if i had done this like 10 years ago, then maybe it would be a different story....

I did ban the member, I will not tolerate or allow others to belittle or disrespect me.
Its not like he contributed anything to the forum, he only posted links to themes
that would have benefited him if he had gotten any traffic via my forum....

did i go to far in banning him? What would you do if one of your members comes
to you, insulting you, calling your forum trash, and so on....and he expects me
to buy his themes now? He must have been on some high end pot or something....
You do not do that to potential buyers, he is like killing his own business...

I honestly have not seen an issue with the site just the users on it, most of you have already commented about TACT and the way regular member expect rather than would like...

For me i run an ever growing gaming site that needs to keep evolving and without you coders i am done.. I am guilty for just taking and not saying thanks often enough and from this point on i shall make it a priority, maybe others should follow suit..

Most people have moved on to less* "buggy" forum software's :)

*small print
less meaning 900 less or more lmfao

It's the cycles that forum (and other) sites go through. The new trends of social networking lend themselves to forums just as well if you can integrate things smoothly.

Some coders that do it for a living have gone towards Wordpress or other forum software and it is where they can make money for themselves and their families. Can't fault them for that.

Personally, I run sites on both vBulletin and xenForo for different reasons.

You shouldn't put your eggs all in one basket, right ;)

I've done the same.. though I sold all my vB licences but one... And that is because my biggest forum uses vB and I don't see XF a viabile option to replace it with do to poor hacks on the market.

My other smaller forums have been converted to XF and I don't mind them. BTW I am using vB 3.8.7 not 4. I still think vB4 is terrible and a resource hog.

But I agree with you.. it's not always best to get ride of everything, though it depends on preference too. I have a connection with vB 3 series still. But I'm sure slowly I will adapt to the XF series.